Permanently add a directory to PYTHONPATH?

Question

Whenever I use sys.path.append, the new directory will be added. However, once I close python, the list will revert to the previous (default?) values. How do I

Answer 1

Fix Python Path issues when you switch from bash to zsh

I ran into Python Path problems when I switched to zsh from bash.

The solution was simple, but I failed to notice.

Pip was showing me, that the scripts blah blah or package blah blah is installed in ~/.local/bin which is not in path.

After reading some solutions to this question, I opened my .zshrc to find that the solution already existed.

I had to simply uncomment a line:

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